Ah Shi opened his eyes and got out of bed.

After taking a few large sips of cold water, she tightened the belt around her waist, trying to tie up the sour water that tortured her almost all the time.

It's been a long time since she'd forgotten about a full stomach.

About a year ago, when her father and mother were still around, she was still able to eat from time to time.

But one day, after a visit by merchants who often came to the village to trade grain, many of the adults in the village had a distressed and sad look on their faces.

Curious, she inquired and got a message from the adults of the village. Her country is at war with other countries. What is war? She didn't know.

But since then, life has become more difficult, and the food that can be traded has become less and less expensive, and she has to go to work in the town with the adults to barely get a little food. And this little bit of food just kept her from starving to death.

At first, she had a glimmer of hope, praying that the war would end sooner rather than later, and that she would be able to resume her former life. But a month ago, a group of robbers broke into the village and ransacked the entire village.

In that disaster, my parents died at the hands of robbers, and many familiar people in the village also died in that disaster. She and her brother Nobunaga survived, but the last bit of food in the family was also stolen by robbers. Without food, people will starve to death.

In order not to starve to death, she tried to continue working in the town, but the work in the town became less and less, and she could not get the better paid jobs without any advantage.

Some of the jobs that can be grabbed cannot be completed due to physical strength, which makes the body weaker.

But there are also ways to make her live more easily, although her figure is a little shriveled, but her face is okay, so there are still many people interested.

But she had seen women who had chosen to live this way, and those women seemed to live more painfully.

Carefully taking out half a brown rice coarse grain dumpling from her bosom, she handed it to her younger brother Nobunaga, who had just risen, which was given to her by a girl named Weiyang in the village.

Nobunaga was still very young, only five years old, and when he saw his sister take out something to eat, his eyes immediately brightened, and he took the wild vegetable dumplings, and then gobbled them into his mouth, chewed vigorously, and then swallowed them, and looked at his sister Aichi again with expectant eyes.

Ah Shi was silent for a moment, touched the remaining half of the coarse grain dumplings in his arms, showed a trace of tenderness in his eyes, and gently stroked his brother's head, "You still have to be a little patient, Nobunaga." ”

Nobunaga was still ignorant about other things, but he understood what his sister was saying at this point, and he nodded vigorously. "You stay at home obediently and wait for my sister to come back."

Still as before, Ah Shi picked up a scythe and left the room, which was the only farm tool in the house, and it was also the item that could make her feel a little more at ease.

Walking in the village, there are many fewer people in the village than before, and some of the houses are closed and never opened again. When he left the village, Ah Shi met a girl who was older than him.

The girl wore a red printed wide-sleeved gown with a hint of hollowness in her eyes as she walked down the road to the town.

When she saw Ah Shi, there was a little more light in her eyes, and there was also a little more tenderness, just like she looked at her brother Nobunaga, "Be careful when you go out, don't run into robbers." ”

Ah Shi looked at this playmate who had been together since childhood, pursed his lips slightly, and nodded.

Weiyang smiled softly, raised his hand to pull up a strand of hair that was hanging down, the cuffs slipped down, and seemed to realize something, he quickly put down his hand and said softly, "If I'm lucky, I'll bring some food back in the evening." Beckoning to Ah Shi, Weiyang held the umbrella and continued to walk forward.

Ah Shi's mouth snorted a few times, wanting to shout out to Weiyang to say something, but he was silent after all. If it weren't for Weiyang, with the little wild vegetables she went out to dig every day, she and Nobunaga would have starved to death.

When the material is abundant and abundant, eating wild vegetables can be described in many papers, how nutritious eating wild vegetables is for the human body, and how many microscopic elements are rich in the human body.

But since wild vegetables have not evolved into staple food, we know that this thing can only be used for a while.

The abundant precipitation in the Land of Rain allows a variety of plants to grow very quickly, especially mushrooms and moss, but only a very small number of wild vegetables can be eaten, and they are all slightly toxic and must be cooked before they can be eaten.

It's just that although the forests of the Land of Rain are lush, the humid weather makes it difficult to make wood, the most primitive fuel, and the wet wood cannot be ignited at all.

For the people of the Land of Rain, they now lack everything, lack of medical care, lack of food, lack of fuel

And this lack made many unprepared people of the Land of Rain die meaninglessly without even encountering any sword disasters.

There are very few wild vegetables that can be picked near the outside of the village, not only are they short of food, but the wild vegetables that can be picked are almost all picked, and Ah Shi decided to leave the village today to pick them farther away. It's a dangerous thing to do.

Most of the towns in the Land of Rain can be seen to have entered the industrial age, but the small villages that are miles larger are still backward in development and maintain a primitive way of life.

Villages are like lighthouses standing in the wilderness, emitting a faint light of human civilization, but leaving the villages and the area near the main road, you will enter a more dangerous primitive ecological environment.

All kinds of poisonous insects and beasts lurking in the wild are the greatest danger to ordinary people who rashly step into this area. But sometimes there are things that leave no choice.

If you don't want to starve, you have to find more food sources.

Ah Shi carefully took the stick and moved the grass, disturbing the possible poisonous insects or snakes, etc., to prevent himself from being injured, and he had to be careful not to get wet during the picking process, even if the people living here would have better immunity to wind and cold than in other countries, but once the serious consequences caused by the cold would not change. Ashi's adventure still got a certain amount of receipt.

Far from the outside of the village, there are many wild vegetables that have not been picked and eaten, and in half a day, she collects half of the basket, and the preciousness of fuel makes her want to find more wild vegetables.

When she reacted, she realized that she had lost her way unconsciously, and when she looked around, she could no longer find the way she came. Panic welled up in her heart, and she clenched her scythe and looked at the unfamiliar surroundings in dazed fear. There had been no anomalous relief just now, and suddenly it felt like there were countless dangers lurking. Just when she was panicked and didn't know what to do. "Jingle bell!"

Suddenly, she heard a bell ringing. "Jingle bell..."

The brass bell in my ears is clearer.

As the bell became clearer, she heard the sound of the chanting, the sound layered on top of each other, and heard the footsteps of pedestrians, the sound getting closer and clearer.

"What is this?" The horrific stories she had heard from her parents and the people in the village kept coming back to her mind, and she felt the voices getting closer and closer to her. All the sounds stopped abruptly.

Ah Shi subconsciously held her breath, and she looked nervously in front of a pile of grass. The grass, which was a head taller than her, suddenly sounded. Is there a youkai coming out?

She subconsciously wanted to run away.

But a man came out of the grass.

It was a young monk dressed in a single white monk's robe and straw sandals.

The monk was holding a somewhat strange copper bell, and his face was gentle with a hint of sadness.

With just a glance, most of Ah Shi's panic disappeared in an instant, and he inexplicably had the idea that this person was trustworthy.

As if sensing the girl's previous nervousness and panic, the young monk raised one hand with a warm expression, saluted and said, "The next group seems to have disturbed the donor, please forgive me." ”

Through the separated grass, Ah Shi saw that he had actually walked unconsciously to a small road.

The panic ahead, in fact, is completely unnecessary, as long as you are patient, you can find a way out.